In pursuit of productive conflict in strategic planning: project identification

This paper discusses three normative standpoints on conflict in strategic spatial planning: no conflict, conflict for consensus and conflict for meta-consensus on the validity of dispute. These views apply to the questions of whether and why projects, as a major source of conflict, should be identified in the process of strategic planning. In their approaches to these questions, the performance school advocates the production of general guidelines to avoid conflict, the collaborative perspective supports the identification of projects in strategic planning in order to utilize their potential in a conflict-to-consensus journey and the conflict-oriented perspective favours the identification of projects in strategic planning in order to arrive at meta-consensus on the immediate disputability of robust agreements. Reflecting on the collaborative perspective, this paper tests a hypothetical model of how conflicts created in the face of project identification can feed in making consensual strategies. Findings in the North West region of England support the model and suggest some difficulties with reviewing such consensus around which a resistance network forms. The paper puts forward some recommendations for overcoming the review challenge.     

Power and the material arrangements of a river basin management plan: the case of the Archipelago Sea

The drive towards collaborative governance has raised critical questions about the hidden forms of power practised in consensual planning processes. In the field of water governance, the issue has been analysed in terms that treat power as an intrinsic property of actors or planning settings. Alternatively power is located in the discursive means mobilized by the human participants. Drawing from actor-network theory, this paper calls attention to the material arrangements constitutive for the practicing of power in target-driven, consensus-seeking planning. It sets focus on the obligatory passage points and factual closures through which a planning task links, for example, to ecosystems, policy principles and trajectories of governance. In the meantime, some other entities and issues may lose their planning-steering potentiality. As shown by the analysis of a river-basin planning process, the arrangements that end up steering consensus-seeking cannot be treated as merely discursive outputs operating upon a passive non-human reality. Materialities and living processes contribute to the outcome. However, the link is not deterministic. With different means of arrangement, the planning reality can – and, in the studied case, could have – end up different.     

发挥媒体对建设社会主义核心价值体系的促进作用

建设社会主义核心价值体系,新闻媒体担负着重要责任。新闻媒体及其工作者要加深对社会主义核心价值体系的理解,准确把握其丰富内涵和基本要求,把社会主义核心价值体系的要求贯穿到宣传报道之中,在建设社会主义核心价值体系中发挥积极作用。     

人文关怀和心理疏导应是高校教师的必备能力

人文关怀和心理疏导是高校实现育人目标的重要途径,它不仅仅是专兼职思想政治理论和心理健康教师的职责,还应该成为全体高校教师共同的职责和必备能力。     

试论新闻党性原则的时代特色

本文就新时期如何全面准确理解新闻党性原则,牢牢把握和坚持新闻党性原则的时代要求,科学处理新闻党性与人民性的关系、党性原则与尊重规律的关系、社会效益与经济效益的关系以及主旋律与多样化的关系进行了论述,阐明了只有把握新闻党性原则的时代特色,才能不断开创社会主义新闻事业的新局面。     

新闻宣传要为“四个发展”创造良好的舆论环境

中共青海省委十一届六次全体会议提出的跨越发展、绿色发展、和谐发展和统筹发展是具有青海特点的科学发展模式。新闻宣传在实现四个发展中担负着重要责任。文章通过新闻宣传与“四个发展”关系的论述,阐明新闻媒体及其工作者要准确把握和理解“四个发展”的深刻内涵、基本特征和内在联系,把四个发展的要求贯穿到宣传报道之中,在建设富裕文明、和谐的新青海中做好舆论引导,为推动“四个发展”发挥应有的作用。     

网络舆情引导策略研究

信息时代,网络成为舆论表达的重要渠道。网络舆情能否引导、是否应该被引导,在学术界是有争议的,但从实践的角度看,没有哪个国家完全对网络舆论放任不管,随波逐流。本文试对这一问题进行理论梳理,并对实践方面各国对网络舆论引导的策略手段加以总结。     

Assessment of Visitor Management at the Archaeological Site of Umm Qais: Condition and Problems

Abstract

Umm Qais is one of the most significant archaeological tourist attractions in Jordan besides Petra and Jerash. It is also popular with locals due to its rich diversity of natural history features and landscapes. However, there has been no detailed study of approaches to visitor management at the site. This paper investigates the visitor management pressures on the site of Umm Qais, seeking to develop an understanding of the approaches that direct the process of visitor management in an archaeological site. The specific objective of this study is to identify and analyse the current visitor management measures and tools at the site. It explores issues of hard and soft visitor management through monitoring, visitor guidance, and interpretation. The study has been conducted as a qualitative case study, and its results are based on direct personal observation and discussions with the personnel that have been conducted on-site by the Jordanian authors.

Despite the visitor management applied approaches, results reveal important and continuing challenges for Umm Qais due to limited visitor monitoring, weak information, and poor restriction measures. Based on the findings of the study, some recommendations are made in order to permit the local heritage managers to develop the site and its visitor management appropriately. This is an essential process in aiding this potential World Heritage Site to update approaches and adapt to the changing circumstances related to the visitor needs for the site. This will contribute to heritage and tourism literature and practice by enhancing the knowledge of visitor management at a national level.     

19世纪与20世纪之交的日本亚洲主义

19世纪与 2 0世纪之交 ,日本出现过“亚洲主义” (亦称“大亚细亚主义”)思潮 ,这一思潮早期表现为抵御列强的“亚洲同盟论”与“中日连携”思想 ;以后演绎出文化亚洲观 ;最后则异变为与“大陆政策”相连的侵略主义理论。     

浅谈新闻媒体在构建和谐社会中的作用

构建和谐社会,新闻媒体肩负着重要的职责。做好构建和谐社会的舆论宣传工作,新闻媒体必须进一步挖掘潜能,提高宣传质量和舆论引导水平,更好地为构建和谐社会提供强大的舆论支持。